Data Management/Security

The reliance on business-critical, company-wide applications such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Point-of-Sale (POS) transaction-based systems, e-mail, and databases have driven businesses to deploy and maintain complex storage infrastructures. As a result, distributed enterprises must contend with rapidly growing data volumes, gain visibility into how data is being used, and enable efficient access to data from remote offices. The need for 24x7 data availability and the demands of managing a diverse architecture with different standards and technologies have increased the cost of network and storage management.

Snap Server solutions save time, money, and frustration by centralising storage management, making it simple to control an entire Snap Server infrastructure, even remote sites, from a single console on the network. This reduces the burden on an IT team that may already be stretched thin and lowers the total overall cost (TOC) of storage Centralised Storage Management Easily manage data throughout a company with minimal IT resources.
 
 Centralised Storage Management
 
Easily manage data throughout a company with minimal IT resources

Snap Server Manager, included with all Snap Servers, is a Java-enabled management solution that allows enterprises to rapidly deploy, configure, and manage a complete Snap Server storage network from a single console. A click of a mouse reveals in-depth information about storage assets and how they are being used. An intuitive interface provides centralised management of the entire storage infrastructure, including physical devices and global network configuration and administration. Flexible server grouping enables IT managers to easily administer storage in the way that best fits their business and allows business-centric views that simplify capacity planning and charge back.

Key benefits include:

Minimises the IT resources required to manage hundreds of terabytes of storage
Operates across all major platforms and mixed environments – Windows, Linux, UNIX, Macintosh
Automated device discovery, actions and scheduling
Comprehensive reporting
Monitoring and event notification